2 Release notes for GStreamer Bad Plugins 1.12.0
4 The GStreamer team is pleased to announce the first release in the stable 1.12
5 release series. The 1.12 release series is adding new features on top of the
6 1.0, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8 and 1.10 series and is part of the API and ABI-stable
7 1.x release series of the GStreamer multimedia framework.
10 Full release notes can be found here
13 Binaries for Android, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows will be provided in the next days.
19 No perfectly groomed moustache or any amount of fine clothing is going to
20 cover up the truth - these plugins are Bad with a capital B.
21 They look fine on the outside, and might even appear to get the job done, but
22 at the end of the day they're a black sheep. Without a golden-haired angel
23 to watch over them, they'll probably land in an unmarked grave at the final
27 Don't bug us about their quality - exercise your Free Software rights,
28 patch up the offender and send us the patch on the fastest steed you can
29 steal from the Confederates. Because you see, in this world, there's two
30 kinds of people, my friend: those with loaded guns and those who dig.
34 This module contains a set of plugins that aren't up to par compared to the
35 rest. They might be close to being good quality, but they're missing something
36 - be it a good code review, some documentation, a set of tests, a real live
37 maintainer, or some actual wide use. If the blanks are filled in they might be
38 upgraded to become part of either gst-plugins-good or gst-plugins-ugly,
39 depending on the other factors.
40 If the plugins break, you can't complain - instead, you can fix the
41 problem and send us a patch, or bribe someone into fixing them for you.
42 New contributors can start here for things to work on.
45 Other modules containing plugins are:
49 contains a basic set of well-supported plugins
51 contains a set of well-supported plugins under our preferred license
53 contains a set of well-supported plugins, but might pose problems for
56 contains a set of codecs plugins based on libav (formerly gst-ffmpeg)
62 Bugs fixed in this release
64 * 773681 : directsoundsink: High cpu usage on windows x86
65 * 764947 : autodetect: bring element down to NULL on a successful choice
66 * 780976 : webrtcdsp: do not fail to start if webrtcechoprobe is not found
67 * 782046 : glupload: passthrough composition caps features in directviv upload
68 * 782119 : meson: ext/hls/libgsthls.so needs -lm
69 * 782078 : qtkitvideosrc: Removed in order to avoid obsolete APIs
73 You can find source releases of gst-plugins-bad in the download
74 directory: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/
76 The git repository and details how to clone it can be found at
77 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/
81 The project's website is https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
83 ==== Support and Bugs ====
85 We use GNOME's bugzilla for bug reports and feature requests:
86 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GStreamer
88 Please submit patches via bugzilla as well.
90 For help and support, please subscribe to and send questions to the
91 gstreamer-devel mailing list (see below for details).
93 There is also a #gstreamer IRC channel on the Freenode IRC network.
97 GStreamer is stored in Git, hosted at git.freedesktop.org, and can be cloned
98 from there (see link above).
100 Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should
101 subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list.
104 Contributors to this release